As is usual in pre-season I’ve been tracking how much each Premier League and EFL squad has changed since last season. This will be updated once the transfer window closes. I’ve harvested the data from the official retained lists, the BBC transfer page, Transfermarkt and a variety of Twitter sources, so hopefully I haven’t missed anything. You can see the
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Here are the individual timeline graphics for the latest round of matches, comparing the quality of chances created by each team with goals scored. There’s a full explanation of these here for anyone who’s not seen them before.
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Here are the individual timeline graphics for the latest round of matches, comparing the quality of chances created by each team with goals scored. There’s a full explanation of these here for anyone who’s not seen them before.
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As usual, I’ve taken the newly-released fixtures for the Premier League and EFL and combined them with an aggregation of leading bookmakers’ odds (from OddsChecker) to visualise where each club’s tough and easy matches appear to be next season. Each row in the matrix below lists a club’s league matches in chronological order, colour-coded based on how difficult they appear
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Out of curiosity, I’ve applied the official Premier League scoring system (which can be found here under Rules > Scoring) to each of the three EFL divisions to see what the best possible squad would be. Just like the official game, I’ve picked the best-scoring combination of two goalkeepers, five defenders, five midfielders and three forwards (hopefully without putting anyone into
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What I’ve done below is to measure how long each club has spent in each of the three main “game states” – i.e. winning, drawing and losing. I’ve then converted these into percentages because I include added time, which means that every club will have a slightly different total number of minutes played. I’ve then ranked clubs by the difference
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Now we’re at the end of the season I thought it was worth refreshing the club-by-club attack breakdowns. These are explained in detail here, but in summary they are simple scatter graphics that work as follows: Explanation Each graphic shows a club’s main attacking players: those who have: Featured for at least a quarter of their total pitch minutes in the
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As we’re at the end of the season, I thought that it was worth updating the long-term trend graphics to see how each club has fared in recent seasons. These are explained in full here and briefly below and this year I’ve expanded the data range from three seasons to five to get a fuller picture of how each club’s
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With the season over it’s time to update the scatter graphics. These compare the attacking and defensive performances of every team in a division – each of the four graphics is explained briefly below and at length here. Shot dominance First of all, here is how the number of shots taken by each club compares with those they face in return.
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These alternative league tables are calculated using expected goals (as seen in my match timelines). There’s a full explanation in the first post here.
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